their receipts will sufficiently evince them that they have been already paid the amount thereof, consequently can have no claim upon you for those Sums. I am &c W Simmons Act^t John Kilty, Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor Baltimore December 11 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the Sum of three hundred & ten Dollars and four cents which you will be pleased to pay to Cap^t Plaats Morris at Fort Whetstone Point taking the necessary Receipts holding him accountable being for pay of himself, Lieut^t Samuel T Dyson and the non commissioned Officers and Privates under his command for November 1797. Sam^d W Simmons Act^t Cap^t Will^m Eaton Accountants Office Philadelphia December 11 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 8 Inst^t enclosing the different Vouchers of the late Ensign Frothingham therein mentioned, before the validity of those Vouchers can be ascertained it will be necessary that certain documents from the Paymaster General should be transmitted to this Office which as yet is not the case, a want of similar information respecting the state of Major Hunt's accounts from the same quarter prevents my being able to inform you what property belonging to the deceased he got into his possession or the most proper mode to be pursued to obtain it. Sam^d W Simmons